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In the quest for happiness there is little to choose 

etween a mansion and a cottage if both have the 
comforts ofa home. Complete wiring can make each 
“THE HOME OF A HUNDRED COMFORTS” 


The Measure of Home Comfort 


OU measure the comfort of your home by its convenience. In these days con- 

venience is, in large part, a matter of electrical service, and the effectiveness 

of this service depends on the completeness of the wiring system. Complete 

wiring is neither complicated nor expensive. If you are preparing to build a new 
home, you plan your plumbing system as a unit and you make sure that it will be complete. 
At the same time and for the same reason, you will appreciate the economy of building a 
complete electrical system into the structure as it is erected. On the other hand, if your 
present dwelling is not wired, or if it is inadequately wired, you will find the electrical con- 
tractor’s resources quite equal to supplying the deficiency and installing electrical con- 
venience in the old home. 


A complete wiring system provides for all the electric lights, for their proper control, 
and for the appliances that you or a future occupant of your house may h 
some day want to use. The value to a future owner is really its value Die Ga one 
to you—that is, he will be more likely to buy and to pay your price an eee th ie 
for a house that meets A7s electrical requirements. When you install a HESS REE 
complete wiring system, you put into your house a value far in excess of the small sum 
which it costs—value that will be returned to you in full if you should ever sell, and 
that will bring its own annual interest if you rent the house. 


The complete wiring system is a direct and inexpensive avenue to the important 
objects of domestic economy. The unelectrified house is like a factory 


that uses only hand processes. The completely wired home opens its Bs eee. of a 
doors to the whole range of home machinery. Here the vacuum 5 ate at Wir 
ing System 


cleaner takes over the hard labor of sweeping and furniture cleaning— 
without dust, without wear, and, above all, hygienically. Here the electric washing 


machine and electric ironer lift the work and weariness of the laundry from the housewife’s 
shoulders. Here a tiny motor performs all the ard tasks of the kitchen. 


Nor is the housewife the only member of the family who finds in electricity a conserver 
of strength and an aid to efficient work. Many a man of mechanical bent takes keen 
pleasure in little home tasks of repair and construction. Complete wiring, especially in 
the attic and cellar and in the garage, allows him to use an electric soldering iron or electric 
glue pot without recourse to other sources of heat than the current from the nearest outlet 
or socket. This convenient energy also serves him in the quick accurate use of tools that 


can be operated by the same small motor which is so great a help in the kitchen. 


If this house is going to be your home, you can realize perfect satisfaction only if 

you are able to make convenient use of electrical appliances—only as 

The Comfort of & you can change the arrangement of the lamps as often as you desire 

Oma Gea —only as you make electricity a servant who follows or precedes 

System : you from room to room, ready at every point to light your way and 
lighten your labor. 


Complete wiring is the road to a hundred comforts. Electric heating devices— 
percolators, urns, toasters, grills, and the like are available on the porch or in the sun 
parlor in summer, in the dining room and the living room at all times, and, when occasion 
requires, in the bed rooms and sick room. Electric fans supply cooling breezes and keep 
the air fresh in any part of the house; electric heaters make cosy the cold corners in fall 
and winter; while electric curling irons, heating pads, and flatirons can be moved about 
and used at any convenient point. 


There is, too, an undeniable prestige in complete wiring. The hostess whose home is 
made distinctive by the refinement of soft lights rightly placed, and controlled by the 
touch of a switch—who can offer her guests dainty dishes prepared in beautiful elec- 
trical heating devices—is one whom acquaintances love to visit and whose taste they admire 
even while they may entertain a little good-natured envy as they appreciate the distinc- 
tion of her surroundings. 


All this enjoyment is made available by the installation of a complete wiring system. 


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Your Assurance of Comfort 


HEN you make a purchase on which you depend for a lifetime’s service, 

your thought is ““how good” rather than “how cheap.” This is especially 

true when the best costs but little more than an inferior product. It is in 

the highest degree true of a wiring system. You will never see the most 
important part—the part that is hidden behind the walls; you cannot inspect it before 
buying. How, then, shall you choose? The answer is, ‘ COR faith”’—faith in the responsi- 
bility, experience, skill, and good repute of the electrical contractor who is to install it— 
faith in his use of only the highest quality material. Only when a contractor has demon- 
strated that he possesses these qualifications and that all his material is invariably of 
the best, has he earned the right to your confidence. 


There is another reason why you should select such a contractor. The reputation 
that he has gained is at stake when he does your work. Obviously, then, you will be guided 
not so much by a low bid as by a high reputation. Complete wiring —exclusive of 
lighting fixtures —installed by an electrical contractor thus qualified and using the best 
material and workmanship costs between 2% and 3% of the total building cost. The 
contractor who offers you a bid much lower than this probably does so by reducing the 
quality or limiting the service, and the difference in dollars and cents can never compen- 
sate for your loss. 


Complete housewiring, with all its attendant advantages in the use of electrical 
appliances and the convenient control of lights, is a possession of which to be proud. 
In order that you may realize its intimate application, our friend—your friend—the 
Qualified Contractor, will in the following pages conduct you through a house with a 
complete wiring system—The Home of a Hundred Comforts. 


At the Front Door 


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IRST impressions strike deep. This is equally true of men and of houses. A 
cordial personality invites further acquaintanceship; an attractive approach 
invests a house with an irresistible atmosphere of invitation. The entrance is the 
welcoming hand of the home. 


“Architects recognize the importance of a pleasing exterior and doorway by introduc- 
ing the most graceful lines and agreeable color that their art commands, but it remains for 
electricity to give your home an even more significant charm when night has veiled its 
architecture and dulled its colors. 


“When you walk along a city street after dusk, you never fail to notice the lighted 
entrances and bright windows. They carry a ‘homey’ suggestion. In suburban districts 
the charm of the lighted porch is even more pronounced and is, besides, a very real pro- 
tection. 


“These electric lights, set at either side of the entrance, are the first greetings of the 
home to your friends and visitors. They mark your home as one whose hospitality extends 
beyond the front door and takes thought of the guest even before his approach is known. 
The mellow light behind your drawn curtains is further evidence of the welcome that 
awaits within. In short, your house is endowed with your personality and projects it 
across the night as far as its lamps can throw their rays.” 


TheVestibule and Front Hall 


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HEN you enter your home at night, your first need is light. That Tumbler 
Switch, close by the front door, is ready to hand. Just a touch of your 
finger—or even of your elbow—and the vestibule is flooded with light. 
Beside it is another Tumbler Switch that controls the entrance lights. 


“Two of the three switches just inside the entrance to the hall repeat the function of 
the two in the vestibule; the third operates the hall center light, which is also separately 
controlled through the switch in the hall, next the living room door. 


“With this arrangement of switches, the front porch and the vestibule light can be 
operated in the vestibule or in the front hall. The front hall light itself can be controlled 
at the entrance to the hall, at the entrance to the living room, and also from the upper 
hall. These devices, controlling the same lights from more than one convenient location, 
are three-way and four-way Tumbler Switches. Later you will be told more about them. 
The switch at the foot of the stairs controls the lights in the hall above. There is also a 
Twin Convenience Outlet in the baseboard for the operation of a vacuum cleaner or for a 
decorative table lamp and an electric fan. 


“This vestibule and hall are completely wired with seven Tumbler Switches, a Twin 
Convenience Outlet, and two ceiling outlets.” 


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The Living Room 


OU spend most of your time in the living room. Here you read and sew and 
watch the children at play. You entertain callers here, too, and know that 
they will judge your home and housekeeping by the atmosphere of this room. 
You, yourself, use every part of it at some time, and no matter where you are, 
you need electrical service. 


“Everyone has table lamps or floor lamps and likes to rearrange them from time to 

; ‘ time, but no one likes to string long wires from the wall brackets—and 
Making Life remove the lamps so that the connection can be made. Hence several 
Convenient Convenience Outlets have been installed, one close to each place where 
a lamp may be wanted. 


“Another purpose is to allow the convenient use of appliances—a vacuum cleaner, 
an electric fan in summer and a portable heater on winter mornings, a chafing dish or a 
percolator for small gatherings. Thus, too, you can most conveniently use a Tungar, 
the simplest, cleanest, and least expensive device for charging radio batteries—for radio 
sets are almost a matter of course in modern homes. There is also a Convenience Outlet 
in the floor, just under the center table, for the table lamp. 


“Music lovers will find much comfort in an abundance of convenience outlets. This 
is a day of electrically operated phonographs and pianos. Wherever it is desired to place 
such a musical instrument, there it can be conveniently used if the room be completely 
wired; and wherever there is need for clear light on one’s music, there a lamp can be placed. 

“This room should sum up all possible electrical comfort as well 
as all electrical convenience—and what finer comfort is there than 
plentiful light, correctly distributed and elastically controlled? 

“Here, if anywhere, there should be enough wall lights to give close illumination to 
any portion of the room. Six wall Elexits have been installed at carefully distributed 
points, permitting you to have as many wall lights as you want—and where you want 
them. Each can be separately controlled at its own socket, but, with this arrangement, 
all are thrown on or off by this Tumbler Switch just inside the entrance from the hall. 


The Comfort 
of Light 


“But this is not the whole story. You have noticed that there is a second switch at 
this door. It controls the center light, but is also connected behind the walls with another 
Tumbler Switch at the opposite door—the one that opens on the sun parlor. Each of 
these switches will throw the ceiling light on or off; so by whichever door you enter or 
leave, you can in passing light the room before you or leave it dark behind you. There is 
another switch that lights up the sun parlor should you have occasion to enter it at night. 


“Before we explore this completely wired house any farther, let us look back at the 
path of light which was laid before the owner’s feet, so that he was A Pak 
never, for a single second, in the dark. As he passed the threshold, the ; aes of 
vestibule was instantly illuminated. He crossed to the hallway and, Tight 
even as he entered, the light preceded him. In like manner, when he reached the living 
room he dispelled the darkness there so that the light guided his very first step. He walked 
over to the sun parlor and made ¢hat brilliant before he had even opened the door. At 
every point he was able to throw off the lights that he no longer needed, and on his return 
he simply reversed the process, unrolling his path of light before his feet and gathering 
it up as he passed. When we go from the hall through the dining room and kitchen—and 
even to the garage—we shall find the same safety and convenience through the same 
simple means. 

“We spoke of the children and their play. To them the most fascinating of all toys 
are electrical—miniatures of railroad trains, motors, derricks, and 
cranes—playthings that do not need ‘winding up’ but keep on going 
wherever the proper kind of electric current is available. 


In the Service of 
Play 


“Tn this room, with its many convenience outlets—and in any other room that may 
serve as a nursery—there are many places to use these toys. All that is needed is a 
Toy Transformer, a little device that is plugged into the outlet and reduces the house current 
to the small power that is needed for these, the most delightful and instructive of all toys. 


‘““A complete wiring system serves adult recreation as well as the young folks’ play. 
It is desirable to have a ‘bridge lamp’ at each table when friends are assembled for a card 
party. The hostess who can connect these at all parts of the room and so be unhampered 
in her arrangement of tables, secures the most beautiful effects and wins the admiration of 
her guests. 

“The flexibility of lighting arrangement afforded by complete wiring is supplemented, 
in matters of size and power, by the wide range of Mazpa lamps. There is a special lamp 
for every type of fixture whether the purpose be decorative or for illumination. It is part 
of the contractor’s service to indicate and supply the right lamp for each socket. 


“All this convenience is made possible by four Tumbler Switches, six wall outlets, 
one ceiling outlet, and seven Convenience Outlets.” 


The Dining Room 


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HE dining room is a place where distinction in entertainment is a matter of 
pride and where family comfort is a daily requirement. Housekeepers have 
learned to obtain these by means of electrical appliances, and they appreciate 
the complete wiring that makes these appliances so easy to use. 


“There is no more popular purchase or gift than an electric toaster or percolator or 
chafing dish. They are beautiful in appearance and of every day usefulness. Almost 
every family owns one or more of these appliances, and no house is completely wired that 
does not provide for their convenient use. The Convenience Outlet under the table is 
especially wired to take care of them. The cord may be carried through an eyelet in the 
rug to the appliances. 


“There are also three baseboard Convenience Outlets, one of which is located with 
particular reference to the service table for the convenient use of a heating plate or grill. 
The others provide for a vacuum cleaner as well as for an electric fan or portable heater. 
In addition, two outlets have been placed in the bay window, at a height of four and a half 
feet from the floor, for buffet cooking appliances or electric candlesticks. 


“While we are here in the dining room, I would like to emphasize the matter of 

appearance. It is perfectly possible to run the cords from a toaster 

Ae Value of and a percolator up to the overhead light. You can load a fixture 

Pica arce with enough sockets or makeshift devices to take care of these leads, 

but the result is unspeakably ugly and cheap in appearance. It discounts all the dignity 
of good furniture and spoils the effect of your good taste. 


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“The floor outlet, in itself a small matter to install, is one of those little refinements of 
wiring that set a mark of distinction on the whole room. It isn’t asif electric percolators 
and chafing dishes and toasters were rare possessions; they are coming into ordinary use 
more and more, and they are recognized as the most appropriate of Christmas and wedding 
gifts. However, their beauty is blemished and their convenience lessened when the cords 
are carried overhead, and, as I have said, the otherwise sightly room is sadly disfigured. 


“All this is equally true of other appliances that are often needed in the dining room. 
Imagine, for example, the appearance of this service table if the grill were attached to one 
of the wall brackets from which the lamp had been removed to make the connection possi- 
ble. An electric fan adds everything to the comfort of a dining room in hot weather, but 
a long cord, stretching to a lighting outlet and perverting its function, is as objectionable 
as any that might be carried to the ceiling fixture. 


“Nowhere else in the house has the lighting scheme so decorative a value as in the 
dining room. Here, as you see, the finest taste has been exercised with The Lich 
the intent to give full effect to begat side fixtures and to the ceiling h . S . 
light. that Adorns 


“The illumination is controlled very much as in the living room. As you enter from 
the hallway you can throw on the center light by tipping one of these two Tumbler Switches. 
The other switch throws on the side lights as in the living room. These are so distributed 
as to emphasize the architectural beauties of the room. The control of the ceiling fixture 
is a three-way switch, which enables you to throw the center light on or off at the kitchen 
door as well as at the hall entrance. As we pass on to the kitchen, you will find another 
branch of the path of light with which we became familiar on the other side of the house. 


“This room is completely wired with three Tumbler Switches, six Convenience Outlets, 
five wall outlets, and one ceiling outlet. 


“The dining room suggests the threefold comfort of electricity—the simultaneous 
service in different forms—that it brings to dwellers in completely 
wired homes. Imagine this the scene of a gay little supper party on Threefold 
a summer night. The soft light shines on a merry company about the poor 
table whence an electric chafing dish spreads seductive odors. At one side an electric fan 
is swinging and showers its grateful breeze across the warm air. Light, Heat, Power! The 
three are separately serving each individual though all are drawn from one source of energy; 
and the three forms of service are made possible by complete wiring and by the appliances 
that complete wiring puts at the easy command of the hostess.” 


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The Kitchen 


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AM glad that this kitchen is so completely equipped with electrical appliances, 
because it will show you how thorough a provision for every possible saving of labor 
can be made within a small space. As I have said, a complete wiring system doesn’t 
call for a complete set of appliances—it simply makes the use of any or all of them 

not only possible, but easy. 


“There is only one Twin Convenience Outlet in this completely wired kitchen, but 
it is placed so as to be most available for every demand—over the kitchen table, and 
four and a half feet above the floor. It can be connected with an egg beater and with a 
little household motor for mixing bread, freezing ice cream, grinding meat, and a dozen 
other kinds of kitchen work. It is also in the most convenient position to use with an 
electric dishwasher, an appliance that has come into high favor not only because of the 
quick, easy way in which it disposes of a disagreeable task, but also because cf the hygienic 
conditions under which it does the work. 


“Should you want to do a little quick pressing without going to the laundry, you can 
connect an electric iron at this outlet and at the same time, if the weather be warm, operate 


an electric fan. 


: “Your kitchen is, after all, simply a housekeeper’s workshop; 
Weenie te it is not an appropriate place for decorative lighting, but 1t does demand 
er the most efficient illumination that can be installed. You will note that 

the lights, while few, are adjusted to every kitchen need. The bright ceiling light, with its 


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severely plain fixture, is controlled by three-way Tumbler Switches, one at the door of 
the dining room and the other at the door that leads to the back hall. Thus, by which- 
ever entrance you come or go, you can instantly throw the principal light on or off. There 
are only two wall lights, as you see, one over the sink and the other over the kitchen table. 
They are controlled by pull chains, a separate switch being considered unnecessary. 


“While we are examining the lights, let us step out into the back hall where we shall 
find a three-way switch controlling a light at the back porch, which is also thrown off or 
on at the garage. Near it is a switch that operates the back hall light, and on the back 
porch is another that controls the light outside the garage. At the head of the cellar 
stairs is a device that often prevents the waste of current. It is a switch that throws on 
the cellar lights, combined with a little red warning lamp which reminds you that those 
lights are burning. The same kind of connection can be made with the attic lights if you 
desire. 


“In communities where special rates are made for the consumption of current in 
electric ranges, an important housekeeping problem is greatly simpli- 
fied. Electrical cooking consumes the least expensive fuel; it prepares 
food better and with less attention than is required by a coal range, 
and absolutely eliminates fuel odors and the toil of carrying coal and ashes. This range is 
provided with a special heating circuit, separately metered from the other circuits. There 
are electric ranges to fit any condition of space and position. 


Cooking 
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“In connection with the work that is done in the kitchen and the laundry, you have 
always an anxious thought as to scrupulous cleanliness. Remember that the electrically 
equipped home is also equipped hygienically. If you are able to use an electric range, a 
dish washer, or a washing machine, you command an appliance that is peculiarly sanitary. 
This is equally true of vacuum cleaners, and applies to the health-maintaining properties of 
electric fans and portable heaters, and to the correct distribution oflight. It is no exaggera- 
tion to say that the electrical home is most likely to be a home of health. 


“You see here a kitchen equipped with every electrical device for saving labor, for 
comfort, and for proper illumination. Just imagine for a moment that the room is stripped 
of every bit of furnishing. What is left? One Convenience Outlet, one Range Outlet, two 
Tumbler Switches, a ceiling outlet, and two walloutlets. These few connections, installed 
at small cost, provide for every electrical service. 


“The utilitarian character of the electrical equipment in the kitchen suggests a part of 
the housewiring that is equally without ornament but is the very heart 
of the installation. I refer to the wire, the conductors, and the attach- Behind 
ing devices that carry the current from the meter and distribute it to the Walls 
every outlet. 


“The giant strength of electric current must be carefully guarded in its passage behind 
the walls and under the floors. In this house only the safest and longest lived material has 
been used. 


“When speaking of ‘the careful contractor’ I have in mind a two-fold care. He uses 
only the best material in the unseen places, primarily with a thought to your future safety 
and dependence on this part of the installation, but his care extends also to his own good 
repute, which is built on the permanent satisfaction of his clients.” 


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The Sun Parlor 


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EFORE leaving this floor, let us go back through the living room and visit the 
sun parlor. This room serves a double purpose. In summer its windows can be 
thrown open to every breeze, and it becomes a delightfully roomy porch. In cold 
weather it is perfectly protected from the elements and yet admits floods of 
sunlight. Its contribution to year-round comfort is enhanced by a modest but adequate 


electrical equipment. 


““As we have already seen, the decorative ceiling fixture is controlled by a Tumbler 
_ Switch inside the living room door. In addition, there is a Twin Convenience Outlet in the 
baseboard for a table lamp, and for percolator and chafing dish when breakfast or luncheon 
is served here. On the opposite post you might install an outlet for an electric fan, con- 


trolled by its own switch. 


“Before ascending to the second story, think of the first floor as an electrical unit. 
You passed successively through vestibule, hall, living room, dining room, kitchen, and sun 
parlor, and you found—not six disconnected spaces but a single floor whose partitions were 
only a convenience and never a limitation. From the vestibule you lighted the hall; from 
the hall the living room and the dining room, pausing only to throw off the lights behind 
you; and so through the dining room to the ‘kitchen, and through the living room to the 
sun parlor. At every step you found the same provision for necessary appliances, and every- 
where the same assurance of comfort and the same restful illumination.” 


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COMFORTS 


ISOMETRIC DRAWING 
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© =Ceiling Outlet for Extensions (Elexits) 


1®- =Wall Outlets for Extensions (Elexits) 


1O- = Wall Outlet 
=) = Single Convenience Outlet 


1, = Double Convenience Outlet 


> =F loor Outlet 


Nore.— Where Elexits are indicated other types of outlets may be substituted. 


To light outside of garage 
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Total Outlets—82 


Type of Outlet 1st Floor | Cellar | Garage 
Wall Switch Outlets 20 6 3 
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Ceiling Light Outlets 8 6 | 6 
Convenience Outlets 16 3 | 2 
Range Outlet I 


. @ =Range Outlet 
S» =Single-pole Tumbler Switch 
S* =Double-pole Tumbler Switch 
S? =Three-way Tumbler Switch 


St =Four-way Tumbler Switch 


VESTIBULE 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 44 Ceiling Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Nos. 45 and 46 Entrance Lights. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


HALL 


4-Way Tumbler Switch GEr6g1, controls No. 38 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1699, controls No. 38 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr6go, controls No. 44 Vestibule Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Nos. 45 and 46 Entrance Lights. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. ror Upper Hall Ceiling Elexit. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for table lamp, vacuum cleaner, etc. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 50-watt lamp is recommended. 


LIVING ROOM 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 29 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g9, controls No. 29 Ceiling Elexit. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 20, 21, 23, 27, 32 and 34 Wall Elexits. 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 16 Ceiling Elexit. - 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Wall Elexit LX111. 15-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 15-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111, 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 200-watt lamp is recommended. 


SUN PORCH 


furnishes power for portable lamps, electrically 
operated musical instruments, vacuum cleaners, 
fans, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for portable lamps, fan, cooking 
appliances, vacuun cleaner, etc. 

Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75 watts if lamp is of diffusing quality, otherwise only 50, is 
recommended. 


DINING ROOM 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 54 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 54 Ceiling Elexit. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 50, 52, 56, $9, 62, Wall Elexits. 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 

Single Convenience Outlet GE6s58 | furnishes power for cooking appliances, electric 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 candlesticks, glow heater, fan, vacuum cleaner, 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 etc 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 


* The numbers in this column identify the outlets shown on floor plan, 


DINING ROOM (Continued) 


Wall Elexit LXurt. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 
Wall Elexit LXu11. 


Two 15-watt lamps are recommended. 
Two 15-watt lamps are recommended. 
Two 15-watt lamps are recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. Two 15-watt lamps are recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. Two 15-watt lamps are recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. Two 100-watt lamps in dome fixture are recommended. 


KITCHEN 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 64 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1699, controls No. 64 Ceiling Elexit. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for fan, utility motor, beaters, 
iron, etc. 

Special Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for electric range. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Elexit LX200. 100-watt lamp is recommended. 


BACK HALL AND PORCH 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 
Single-pole Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 7o Hall Center Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 73 Back Porch Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 132 Light Outside Garage. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Wall Elexit LX1r1. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


CELLAR 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g90, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o0, controls No. 2 Heater Room Light. 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 4 Fuel Room Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o0, controls No, 6 Storage Room Light. 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 9 Laundry Light. 

S-P, Surface Tumbler Switch GEg70, controls No. 15 Vegetable Room Light. 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for trouble light, fan, ete. 
Twin Convenience Outlet rae furnishes power for electric tools, washing machine, 
Twin. Convenience Outlet GE694 ironer, etc. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88, 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended, 


GARAGE 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 132 Light Outside Garage. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 173 Back Porch Light. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 137 Center Light. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for Tungar battery chargers, elec- 
tric tools and appliances. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88, _75-watt lamp is recommended. 


~ A Backward Look 


‘<9 


EFORE mounting the stairs to the second 

floor, we throw on the light in the hall 
above by means of a Tumbler Switch 
close by the lower step. In this upper 
hall there is literally a switch at every door, for, 
if we so desire, we can turn the hall light off or on 
through switches that are equally convenient to 
each of the three bed rooms. No matter where 
one is sleeping, he can light up the hall without 
going beyond his door in case of any night alarm 
or emergency. 


“At the head of the stairs we pause a moment 
to look back and watch the lower lights fade out 
as we tip the switch that controls them. To the 
mistress of a completely wired home, the backward 
look is at more than. a literal darkness; in fancy 
it travels to the days, not so long past, when any 
measure of home comfort was practically unknown. 


“Where now she flashes a pathway of light in any direction—to the right or left, 
above or below—she had formerly to grope through dark halls and rooms until with 
lighted match she could kindle a feeble oil lamp or gas burner. Where once, with painful 
labor, she wielded broom and brush to secure an imperfect cleanliness, a vacuum cleaner 
now takes over the work and does it a hundredfold better. Where, in the recent past, long 
hours were spent over washtub and ironing board, the laundry is now a mere matter of 
machines that operate at the turn of a switch. 


“All these thoughts are in the mind of the modern homemaker as she looks back at 
the years that were. With her, let us now turn from the darkened stairs to the bright path 
that leads to more of the Hundred Comforts which a complete wiring system has brought 
into her life. 


“Tn these few years electricity has done more than make light a ready convenience, a 
personal safeguard, and an artistic decoration in the home; it has done more than become 
the domestic worker—the strong, competent right arm of the household. It has also kept 
pace with the progress of hygienic science and with the new standards of comfort that 
minister as well to health. 


“In the past, the descent of hot weather was, with most people, a thing to be dreaded 
and suffered, but not to be avoided nor to any extent mitigated. Physical discomfort 
and nervous strain resulted in lower vitality, especially among small children and invalids. 
Today, the occupants of properly wired homes can, by the use of electric fans, enjoy a 
very considerable immunity from summer ills. On the other hand, when keen winds begin 
to blow and the chill drafts of fall make favorite corners of the House uncomfortable and 
even dangerous, the ready service of electricity, in the form of a portable heater, is avail- 
able wherever there is an outlet and contributes to the family health in a way that was 
never known in the past. Then too, in times of illness, it is no small matter to have 
instantly available a heating pad instead of the hot-water bottle that our parents used— 
or an immersion heater fcr the recurring needs of the sick room.” 


The Bed Rooms 


“ec 


N looking through the bed rooms you will be surprised at the amount of solid comfort 
provided for by a simple wiring installation. Of course you want these rooms to 
be dainty and pretty, but above all you look for comfort. As we enter one of 
these rooms, we throw on the ceiling light by means of a three-way switch just 

inside the door. 


“The most used lights in a bedroom are those at the dressing table. Here we have a 
wall light on each side separately controlled by a pull chain. This, however, is but a part 
of the electrical comfort that complete wiring brings to the toilet. Close by the dressing 
table, in the baseboard, is a Twin Convenience Outlet for the use of a curling iron, an 
immersion heater, or perhaps a vibrator. 


“When one is entertaining house guests, there is a very real satisfaction—and even 
pride—in being able to put modern comfort and unexpected little conveniences at their 
disposal. The furnishing of the guest room is the expression of your hospitality, and for 
that reason you will often have occasion to congratulate yourself on the electrical equip- 
ment that makes this room a little home in itself. Many women carry electrical toilet 
appliances when they travel, and the facility for their use, which complete wiring affords, 
will give your friends a delightful impression of the modern service that you have built 
into your house. 


“Let me show you another convenience. Please open the door of that closet.. See! 
A lamp within is instantly lighted by means of a switch that is automatically released when 


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you open the door. When you close the door, the light goes out. Complete wiring extends 
to every corner and is especially planned for the place, like this, where it 1s most needed. 
All the closets in this house are thus equipped. Some people prefer a Tumbler Switch on 
the side of the door. In either case you have convenient control of lights in dark closets. 


“At two other places in the baseboard you see Convenience Outlets and, almost above 
them, wall lights. These are for your desk—wherever you care to place it. You can have 
either a small portable lamp, connected to the outlet, or you can use the lamp in the 
fixture. Complete wiring accommodates itself to any disposition of the furniture that is 
most convenient. 


“When retiring, you need light until the very last moment. For that reason a three- 
way switch is placed at the head of one of these twin beds. It controls the ceiling light 
which we threw on by means of the switch inside the door. Of all the switches in the house 
this is the most important if you are awakened by any noise or alarm in the night. Perhaps 
baby is crying or the telephone is ringing. A single move of your arm and the flooding 
light makes you master of the situation. 


“These switches are the guardians of your slumber and the watchmen of your home. 
You need not lose a second in finding any switch if the metal plate is equipped with a 
‘Radieye.’ This is a screw, the head of which is made luminous by radium. It takes the 
place of the upper screw that helps secure the plate to the wall, and in the dark is a sure 
guide to the finger no matter how great your hurry or possible confusion. It is well to 
have a ‘Radieye’ on every Tumbler Switch. For those who like to read in bed, a Conven- 
ience Outlet has been inserted in the baseboard. To this a small lamp can be attached and 
placed on a table close by. 


“This bed room is completely wired with five wall outlets, a ceiling outlet, four 
Convenience Outlets, two Tumbler Switches, and a door switch aa light for the blecee 
The other bed rooms have similar equipment arranged to provide maximum comfort and 
convenience in each room.” 


The Bath Room 


“e 


S we open the bath room door, we tip this Tumbler Switch and throw on the 
overhead light. The wall lights, one at each side of the mirror, are controlled by 
insulated pull chains in porcelain sockets. To complete the assembly of toilet 
facilities, a Twin Convenience Outlet is placed in the wall just above the tiled 

wainscoting and directly over the wash stand. To this can be attached an immersion 

heater when a little hot water is required—as for shaving—and also a portable heater. 

Could convenience and comfort be more efficiently served? Thus the bath room is com- 

pletely wired with only one switch, one Convenience Outlet, and three lights.” 


The Attic 


“Before leaving this floor, let us take a peep at the attic stairs. Here is a three-way 
Tumbler Switch that throws on the lights above. Once in the attic, you can throw the 
same lights off or on by means of a corresponding switch. 


“The attic is always likely to be a place where dry, inflammable possessions are stored 
—trunks, boxes, unused furniture, and the like. In an unwired house there is grave danger 
of fire if one carries a lamp or candle there while in search of any object. The electric light 
does away entirely with this peril. Ifit had only this one advantage it would be well worth 
installing for the protection it affords. Of course the wiring should be skillfully done and 
with the best material.” 


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105 


104 


109 
106 


107 
108 
110 


128 
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112 


118 
123 
114 


124 


113 
117 
122 


125 
126 


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UPPER HALL 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 38 Lower Hall Light. 
4-Way Tumbler Switch GE1691, controls No. 101 Upper Hall Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 101 Upper Hall Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for lamp, fan, vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 50-watt lamp is recommended. 


LINEN CLOSET 
Door Switch GE273, controls No. 104 Drop Light. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BATH ROOM 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 110 Ceiling Elexit. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for immersion heater, glow heater, 
etc. 


Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt (brackets alone 50-watt) lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt (brackets alone 50-watt) lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


BED ROOM NO. 1 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No, 116 Ceiling Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 116 Ceiling Elexit. 
Door Switch GE273, controls No, 111 Closet Drop Light. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 


furnishes power for lamps, vacuum cleaner, 


sewing machine, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for lamps, toilet accessories, etc. 


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Type of Outlet 
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Wall Switch Outlets 


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Door Switch Outlets is 
Wall Light Outlets 17 
Ceiling Light Outlets 9 I 


Convenience Outlets 


= Single-pole Tumbler Switch 


Double-pole Tumbler Switch 


= Three-way Tumbler Switch 


= Roucway Tumbler Switch 


= Door Switch 


Wall Elexit LX1rr. 
Wall Elexit LX11r. 
Wall Elexit LXrrr. 
Wall Elexit LX11r. 
Wall Elexit LX1ir. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 


= BED ROOM NO. 2 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 80 Ceiling Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No, 80 Ceiling Elexit. 


Door Switch GE273, controls No. 121 Closet Drop Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 


| furnishes power for lamps, vacuum cleaner, 
sewing machines, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for lamps, toilet accessories, etc. 


Wall Elexit LXirtr. 
Wall Elexit LXt1rr. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 
Wall Elexit LXurt. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. t1oo-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BED ROOM NO. 3 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr6g90, controls No. 89 Ceiling Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 89 Ceiling Elexit. 


Door Switch GE273, controls No. 97 Closet Drop Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 furnishes power for lamps, electric toys, milk 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 


warmer, Vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for candlesticks, vibrator, glow 


heater, etc. 


Wall Elexit LX1i1. 
Wall Elexit LX1rr. 
Wall Elexit LXurr. 
Wall Elexit LXurz, 
Wall Elexit LX1i1. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


ATTIC 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Center Drop Light. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 100-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended, 


*The numbers in the first column identify the outlets shown on floor plan, 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Center Drop Light. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


The Cellar 


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EFORE descending to the cellar we tip this Tumbler Switch in the rear hall, 
which lights the little red warning lamp and at the same time throws on a light 
in the center of the main cellar. There are lamps—in porcelain sockets—in the 
laundry, the heater room, the vegetable cellar, and in the coal bin. These are 
controlled by Tumbler Switches of what we call the “surface type,’ the best for this family 
workshop. 


“Tn the laundry, waist high, is a Twin Convenience Outlet for the washing and the 
ironing machine or for an electric iron. There is another outlet in the main cellar for the 
use of such appliances as electric soldering irons, glue pots, and little motors. There is also 
an outlet in the heater room for an extension trouble light or perhaps an electric fan. 


“That little device high up on the wall is known as a Bell- Ringing Transformer. 
It operates the door bell from the lighting current at almost no cost, and does away with 
the trouble and expense of door bell batteries. 


“You will note that here the supply of current enters the house. Close by the meter 
is a Safety Switch that shuts off the current when repairs or changes are being made in 
your electrical service. Nearby is a Safety Distribution Panel which automatically 
discontinues the supply of electricity at any point where too great a demand is being 
made. ‘These simple safeguards afford entire protection to the wired home. 


“This completes our survey of the house. As you have by this time realized, its 
wiring system is a unit with special adaptations. This unity, with the same comfort, 
convenience, and economy, is extended to the garage, which we shall now visit and which 
we may well imagine to be just another room in the Home of a Hundred Comforts.” 


a: 


The Garage 


HE outside light over the door of the garage is controlled by this three-way 


Tumbler Switch, also placed outside. The switch inside the door controls the 

overhead light with its metal reflector. Another light, over the bench, furnishes 

special intensity when needed there, and here is a switch to light up the rear 
porch from the garage before you enter the house at night. 


“The Twin Convenience Outlet by the work bench is for the use of electrical tools 
when the owner makes his own repairs. With this outlet he can use an electric soldering 
iron and glue pot and can obtain power for a small motor. He can also connect a portable 
heater. The outlet in the opposite wall is convenient for charging batteries by means of a 
Tungar Battery Charger and for a trouble light about the car. 


Quality Material “One thought I especially want you to carry away. From long 
and Complete experience with all makes of wiring material we know that it pays to 
Wiring use the highest quality that the market affords. 


“We wish that all owners of inadequately wired houses could contrast their equipment 
with that in this house. They may have supposed that they were getting electrical service, 
but as a matter of fact, they have had no opportunity to experience personally the untold 
advantages—the comfort, convenience, and economy—of a Complete Wiring System.” 


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If Necessary— 


HE house that has been shown on the foregoing pages was selected as being a 
universal and desirable type of the average one-family residence. It is, however, 
more than an average residence. In so far as its adaptability to complete wiring 
is concerned, it is every home. 


The same path of light can be spread in a cottage, or flat, or mansion. It was necessary 
to choose a single set of plans on which to draw the path, but it can be made to wind through 
every set of plans. The Home of a Hundred Comforts is the result of a complete wiring 
system installed by a Qualified Contractor. Such a system is described in this book; 
the Qualified Contractor lives in your town. You may know him by his adherence to 
high standards of work and material, by his consistent opposition to “price bidding,” 
by the fair repute of his work, and by the comfort which his clients find in his installations. 


When you have selected the plans for your new house, take them, sogether with this 
Look, to a Qualified Contractor. An evidence of his qualification will be his immediate 
grasp of the whole wiring system and his ability to adapt it to your future home. As a 
further evidence of his standing, you will find him heartily appreciative of your desire 
to make your installation a permanent investment—not a cheap makeshift. His reputa- 
tion depends in part on your ultimate satisfaction, on your future realization of a hundred 
comforts in your home. 


When you pour water into an oddly shaped vessel, its fluidity permits it to fill every 
space. The principles indicated in this book have the same property. Under the con- 
tractor’s guiding hand, the wires will be led to every nook, and outlets will furnish the same 
convenience in any type of house as in the one which we have been studying. 


While you undoubtedly realize that the comfort of your home is measured by its 
convenience, yet comfort and convenience are both relative quantities. 


The complete wiring system, described in the previous pages of this book, is the 
result of the best judgment of many people who are giving their lives to a study of the 
services that electricity can render, after carefully balancing the elements of convenience 
and cost. 


With the realization, however, that convenience is a relative quantity, two alternative 
diagrams are presented on the following pages for the benefit of those who judge con- 
venience by a somewhat different standard. 


The first of these shows the ideal layout reduced to the bare necessities that will 
provide reasonable electrical convenience. As compared with a house wired in the usual 
imperfect way, this installation is desirable and serviceable. 


The second alternative, printed on pages 26 and 28, may be characterized as a com- 
promise between the two. It includes the essential conveniences of the first alternative 
and adds some of the contributions to comfort and security which go to make up the ideal 


wiring of The Home of a Hundred Comforts. 


You are earnestly advised, however, to think and figure carefully before finally decid- 
ing on either of the alternative plans. It is suggested that you secure comparative esti- 
mates from a Qualified Contractor, covering each of the three plans separately. Beside 
these sums, set the difference in comfort and convenience that they represent—a comfort 
and convenience with which you may have to be content for a lifetime. Then ask yourself 
if the moment’s difference in expense is not insignificant as compared with the difference 
in electrical service that must continue through the years. 


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Alternative Outlet Diagram No. 1 
First Floor 


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Total Outlets—66 


Type of Outlet 1st Floor | Cellar | Garage 
Wall Switch Outlets 16 6 3 
Wall Light Outlets (Snare 
Ceiling Light Outlets GF 6 2 
Convenience Outlets 12 3 I 

KEY 


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Double-pole Tumbler Switch 


2 
Wall Outlet S 


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Single Convenience Outlet 


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Specifications for Alternative Diagram No. 1 
First Floor 


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VESTIBULE 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 44 Ceiling Light. 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 45 and 46 EntranceLights. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264, 25-watt lamp is recommended. © 


HALL 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 38 Ceiling Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 44 Vestibule Light 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. ror Upper Hall Ceiling 
Light. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for table lamp, 


vacuum cleaner, etc. 


LIVING ROOM 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 29 Ceiling Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 29 Ceiling Light. 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 16 Ceiling Light. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 | 


furnishes power for portable 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 lamps, electrically operated 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 | musical instruments, vacuum 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 J cleaners, fans, etc. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 50-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 200-watt lamp is recommended. 


SUN PORCH 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for portable 
lamps, fan, cooking appliances, vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 


75-watt lamp is recommended. 


DINING ROOM 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16go, controls No. 54 Ceiling Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 54 Ceiling Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 


furnishes power for cooking 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 


appliances, electric candle- 


sticks, glow heater, fan, 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 $ 
Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 | 


vacuum cleaner, etc. 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 J 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 30-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 30-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 30-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 100-watt lamp is recommended. 


*The numbers in this column identify the outlets shown on floor plan. 


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KITCHEN 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 64 Ceiling Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 64 Ceiling Light. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for fan, utility 


motor, beaters, iron, etc. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


25 watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 100-watt lamp is recommended. 


BACK HALL AND PORCH 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 70 Hall Center Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 73 Back Porch Light. 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr16go0, controls No. 132 Light Outside 
Garage. 


Ceiling Fixture Outlet GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


CELLAR 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 2 Heater Room 
Light. 
S-P. SurfaceTumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No.4 Fuel Room Light 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 6 Storage Room 
Light. 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 9 Laundry Light. 
S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg7o, controls No. 15 Vegetable 
Room Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for trouble light 


? 
fan, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 \ furnishes power for electric tools, 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 f washing machine, ironer, etc. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 
GARAGE 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr16g0, controls No. 132 Light Outside 


Garage. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr690, controls No. 73 Back Porch Light. 
S-P. Switch GE1688, controls No. 137 Center Light. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for Tungar battery 
chargers, electric tools and appliances. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


Alternative Outlet Diagram No. 1 
Second Floor 


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Total Outlets—4o 


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Wall Switch Outlets 6 9) 
Door Switch Outlets 2 
Wall Light Outlets 13 
Ceiling Light Outlets 5 I 
Convenience Outlets II 
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109 


106 


107 


108 


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Specifications for Alternative Diagram No. I 
Second Floor 


UPPER HALL 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 38 Lower Hall Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. ror Upper Hall Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for lamp, fan, 


vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 5o-watt lamp is recommended. 


LINEN CLOSET 
Door Switch GE273, controls No. 104 Drop Light. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BATH ROOM 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 110 Ceiling Light. 
Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for immersion 
heater, glow heater, etc. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


BED ROOM NO. 1 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 116 Ceiling Light. 

Door Switch GE273, controls No. 111 Closet Drop Light. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | furnishes power for lamps, vacuum 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 j cleaner, sewing machine, etc. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for lamps, toilet 
accessories, etc. 

Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Wall Fixture Cutlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle CE264. 


100-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle CE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


100 


86 


119 


130 


131 


BED ROOM NO. 2 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 87, 78, 82, 76 and 81 
Wall Lights. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for lamps, vacuum 
cleaner, sewing machine, etc. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | furnishes power for lamps, toilet 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 j accessories, etc. 


Wall Vixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 


Wall Fixture Outlet. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BED ROOM NO. 3 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 93, 92,90,95 Wall Lights. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | furnishes power for lamps, elec- 
tric toys, milk warmer, vacuum 
cleaner, etc. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 \ 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for candlesticks, 


vibrator, glow heater, etc. 


Wall Iixture Outlet. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 
Wall Fixture Outlet. 


Wall Tixture Cutlet. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 


ATTIC 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16go | 
f controls Center Drop Light. 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690 | 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle CE264. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


*The numbers in this column identify the outlets shown on floor plan. 


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Alternative Outlet Diagram No. 2 
First Floor 


to light outside of garage 


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LIVING 
ROOM 


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Total Outlets—74 


Type of Outlet 1st Floor | Cellar | Garage 

Wall Switch Outlets 16 6 3 
Wall Light Outlets 13 | 
Ceiling Light Outlets 8 GF ae 
Convenience Outlets Tae eles 2 
Range Outlet cox 

KEY 

Ceiling Outlet for Extensions (Elexits) -~©- = Floor Outlet 


@®@ = Range Outlet 


S 


Wall Outlet 


Single-pole Tumbler Switch 


Wall Outlets for Extensions (Elexits) 


e 
S = Double-pole Tumbler Switch 


Single Convenience Outlet 


| 


S = Three-way Tumbler Switch 


Double Convenience Outlet 


S' = Four-way Tumbler Switch 


Nore.— Where Elexits are indicated other types of outlets may be substituted. 


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Specifications for Alternative Diagram No. 2 


First Floor 


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16 


48 
60 


55 


57 
58 
53 
61 
io 
56 
59 
62 


54 


VESTIBULE 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 44 Ceiling Elexit. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


HALL 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16go, controls No. 38 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 44 Vestibule Elexit. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 45 and 46 Entrance 
Lights. . 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 101 Upper Hall Ceiling 
Elexit. i ras 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes sehen for table lamps, 


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vacuum cleaner, etc. / Ke 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 5o0-watt lamp is recommended. 


LIVING ROOM 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 29 Ceiling Elexit. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 21, 20, 23, 34 and 32 
Wall Elexits. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 16 Ceiling Elexit. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 


furnishes power for portable 
‘lamps, electrically operated 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 musical instruments, vacuum 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 J 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX1rr. 
Wall Elexit LXuir. 
Wall Elexit LXa11. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 3o-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 


cleaner, fans, etc. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
30-watt lamp is recommended. 
30-watt lamp is recommended. 


150-watt lamp is recommended. 


SUN PORCH 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for portable 
lamps, fan, cooking appliances, vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


DINING ROOM 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 54 Ceiling Elexit. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls Nos. 62, 52, 56, and 5g Wall 
Elexits. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 


; ; ‘i appliances, 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
J 


furnishes power for cooking 
electric candle- 
fan, 


sticks, glow heaters, 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 
Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 
Wall Elexit LXuir. 
Wall Elexit LXa11. 
Wall Elexit LXuir. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 30-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 


vacuum cleaners, etc. 


30-watt lamp is recommended. 
30-watt lamp is recommended. 
30-watt lamp is recommended. 


150-watt lamp is recommended. 


KITCHEN 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 64 Ceiling Elexit. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GEr16g0, controls No. 64 Ceiling Elexit. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for fan, utility 
motor, beaters, iron, etc. 

Special Convenience, Outlet GE694, furnishes power for electric 
range. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 40-watt lamp is recommended. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 40-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


BACK HALL AND PORCH 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 70 Hall Center Elexit. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16go, controls No. 73 Back Porch Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 132 Light Outside 

Garage. y t ; 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


CELLAR 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 12 Main Cellar Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch CE920, controls No. 2 Heater Room 
Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg20, controls No. 4 Fuel Room 
Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg20, controls No. 6 Storage Room 
Light. ee 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg20, controls No. 9 Laundry Room 
Light. 

S-P. Surface Tumbler Switch GEg20, controls No. 15 Vegetable 
Room Light. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE6s8, furnishes power for trouble light, 
fan, etc. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 

Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 


furnishes power for electric tools, 
washing machine, ironer, etc. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle CEo88. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


GARAGE 


3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g0, controls No. 132 Light Outside 
Garage. 

3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 73 Back Porch Light. 

S-P. Tumbler Switch GEr1688, controls No. 137 Center Light. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694 i furnishes power for Tungar 
battery chargers, electric tools 


Twin Convenience Cutlet GE694 | and appliances. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GEo88. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


*The numbers in this column identify the outlets shown on floor plan. 


Alternative Outlet Diagram No. 2 
Second Floor 


To light in 
lower hall 


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= Ceiling Outlet 


Ceiling Outlet for Extensions (Elexits) 


Wall Outlets for Extensions (Elexits) 


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Single Convenience Outlet 


= Double Convenience Outlet 


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oy 79 


Total Outlets—47 


Type of Outlet 2n 


Wall Switch Outlets 


Door Switch Outlets 


Wall Light Outlets 


Ceiling Light Outlets 


Convenicnce Outlets 


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Single-pole Tumbler Switch 


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Double-pole Tumbler Switch 


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Three-way Tumbler Switch 


G* = Four-way Tumbler Switch 


Cc = Door Switch 


Nore.— Where Elexits are indicated other types of outlets may be substituted. 


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Specifications for Alternative Diagram No. 2 
Second Floor 


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105 


104 


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UPPER HALL 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls No. 38 Lower Hall Light. 
4-Way Tumbler Switch GE1691, controls No. 101 Upper Hall Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE16g90, controls No. 101 Upper Hall Light. 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658, furnishes power for lamp, fan, 
vacuum cleaner, etc. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 50-watt lamp is recommended. 


LINEN CLOSET 


Door Switch GE273, controls No. 104 Drop Light. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264, 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BATH ROOM 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 110 Ceiling Elexit. 

Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for immersion 
heater, glow heater, etc. 

Wall Elexit LX1rr. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Wall Elexit LX1r1. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended 


BED ROOM NO. 1 


S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 116 Ceiling Elexit. 
Door Switch GE273, controls No. 111 Closet Drop Light. 

Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 6 nishes power forlamps, vacuum 
Single Convenience Outlet GE6s8 } ‘leaner, sewing machine, etc, 
Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for lamps, toilet 

accessories, etc. 

Wall Elexit LXurr. 
Wall Elexit LXu1r. 
Wall Elexit LX1it. 


Wall Elexit LXurr. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


*The numbers in this column identify the outlets shown on floor plan. 


94 


92 
93 
89 
97 


119 


130 


131 


BED ROOM NO. 2 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 80 Ceiling Elexit. 
Door Switch GE273, controls No. 121 Closet Drop Light. 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 | 


furnishes power for lamps, 


Single Convenience Outlet CE658 L vacuum cleaner, sewing ma- 
Single! Convenience Gudler GE6ss | Hine, ete: 
Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for lamps, toilet 
accessories, etc. 
Wall Elexit LXu11. 
Wall Elexit LX111. 
Wall Elexit LXt1rr. 


Wall Elexit LXtrrr. 


25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
25-watt lamp is recommended. 
Ceiling Elexit LX200. 75-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


BED ROOM NO. 3 
S-P. Tumbler Switch GE1688, controls No. 89 Ceiling Elexit. 
Door Switch GE273, controls No. 97 Closet Drop Light. 


i ; 
Single Convenience Outlet GE658 fuenishes power | for lamps, elec- 


tric toys, milk warmer, vacuum 


Single Convenience Outlet GE658 cleaner, etc. 


Twin Convenience Outlet GE694, furnishes power for candlesticks, 
vibrator, glow heater, etc. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Wall Elexit LX111. 25-watt lamp is recommended. 

Ceiling Elexit LX200. 


100-watt lamp is recommended. 


Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264, 25-watt lamp is recommended. 


ATTIC 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Center Drop Light. 
3-Way Tumbler Switch GE1690, controls Center Drop Light. 
Ceiling Lamp Receptacle GE264. 
(White). 


75-watt lamp is recommended. 


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[0] CONVENIENCE OUTLETS 


HE G-E Wiring System is a system of housewiring embodying adequate outlets 

properly placed, conveniently controlled, and using G-E materials throughout. The 

elements consist of the following: (a) A safety entrance switch; (b) a safety 

distribution panel; (c) bell-ringing transformer; (d) code wire; (e) metal-covered 
conductors; (f) metal-encased switches, convenience outlets, and light outlets; (g) light 
control at every doorway; (h) convenience outlets—a minimum of one for every fifty 
square feet of floor space; (1) light outlets—a minimum of one for every fifty square feet 
of floor space. 


The object of the G-E Wiring System is so to raise and establish the general standard 
of housewiring that every householder will experience the utmost measure of comfort, 
convenience, and permanence from his electrical installation. The system is a unit— 
not a series of detached parts. The proper control of light outlets is as important as the 
correct plan of distribution; the high quality of the material is equally essential to dura- 
bility and to safety. Product and function unite in the most complete and substantial 
service that electricity can bring to the enjoyment of home life and to the surroundings 
which give that life some of its finest values. 


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Safety Entrance Switch 


HE G-E Wiring System includes a specially designed gate- 
way through which electricity enters your home. It is 
known as the Trumbull Meter Service Switch—a device that 
unites perfect service with perfect protection. Its function 

is to connect your light and convenience outlets with the outside 

wires that supply them with current. Its further function is to shut 

off the current if changes are being made in the house circuit. The 

door of the switch cannot be opened until an outside handle has 

thrown off the current—nor can the circuit be restored until the door 
is closed. This type of switch is obligatory 
in most large cities. 


Safety Distribution Panel 


METAL 
BOx FOR 


a celine The size of the dwelling determines the 
number of separate circuits which should 
A ex supply its various parts. In the Safety 


Distribution Panel each of these circuits is 
arranged separately and is separately pro- 
tected. This adds greatly to the conven- 
ience of the electrical system, as only one 
portion of the house—served by one of these 
circuits—is, for the moment, darkened, if 
- that circuit has been made to carry more 
tumeter current than was intended. The protection 


SWITCH AND ° » 
Hate) is complete—the renewal of the fuse is a 


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ONDUCTORS matter of only a few moments. 


Bell-Ringing Transformer 


Doubtless you have, at some time or other, been surprised 
rn and disappointed at the failure of expected callers to appear— 
universat | 2am, WY oucr and after all, they Aad come and had been unable to bring a 
switch We response despite their repeated attempts to ring your door bell. 
a It is quite possible that, because of a weakened door bell battery, 
you yourself have faced some acquaintance’s unopening door. 
The G-E Bell-Ringing Transformer is a little device—but an 
essential part of the G-E Wiring System—that abolishes the 
annoyance of exhausted batteries and the bother of replacing 
them. It operates the door bell from your lighting current at a 
cost too small to be considered, and it maintains its efficiency 
through the years. The transformer itself is so small that it 
may be held in the palm of your hand, but its practical day-and- 
night service is so important that it has been permanently 
incorporated in the G-E Wiring System. 


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Between Entrance and Outlet 


HIGHLY important part of the G-E 
Wiring System—the part that must 
be installed with the finest skill— 
you willnever see. From the moment 
that the current enters your house until it is 
brought to your intimate personal service in 
lamp and appliance, it must be guarded and 
guided through every inch of its long, many- 
branched route behind the walls of your home. 


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For this work, the conscientious con- 
tractor finds his purpose best 

ries Nee of met by “BX” Flexible Steel 
eee Armored Conductor, and 
Ligeti! Greenfielduct, a rigid conduit, 
both products of General Electric. Through 


these, the insulated wire is led. 


In G-E “BX” the insulated wires are 
armored by a spirally wound steel strip which 
completely protects them against mechanical 
injury. Nails, which might be driven through 
the walls or floors behind which the wires are 
installed, are turned aside, and gnawing 
rodents are bafled by this steel protection. 


The Worth G-E Code Wire, a standardized product of the highest quality, is used 
PG iu exclusively in “BX” and adds its assurance of perfect service and 
G-E Code Wire permanent endurance. Forever out of sight, it is an essential contribu- 


tion to the worth of the G-E Wiring System. 


At every outlet there is a little metal receptacle known as an Outlet Box, which serves 
as a sort of terminal to the electric line and protects the inside mechanism of the outlet. 
General Electric has given the same care to the design and construction of these boxes 
as it has to every other point in the line, and with the same intent to make housewiring 
not only complete but also permanent and safe. 


If you could but strip away the outer surface of the walls and lift the floors in a com- 
pletely wired home, you would be surprised at the skill with which the conductors of 
electricity have been attached and with which their course has been planned. Here is 
the real craftsmanship that distinguishes the Qualified Contractor—the work that con- 
stitutes by far the largest part of the installation—the painstaking labor that makes it 
possible for you to realize a hundred electrical comforts in your home. 


Another element in thoroughly dependable wiring is furnished through the several 
forms of tape made by the General Electric Company, by means of which joints are 
perfected and heavily insulated. They furnish another example of the care bestowed 
by the G-E Wiring System on the inconspicuous but important parts of your electrical 
installation. 


G-E Tumbler Switches 
HE G-E Tumbler Switch is supremely 


convenient. Its single button (or lever) 

moves up or down at the sweep of a finger 

—or of anarmorelbow. You do not need 
to pause in order to turn it; you just tip it up or 
down as you pass. Its workmanship and material 
are of the finest quality. Its quick strong action 
does not weaken with the passing years nor do its 
parts deteriorate. It is proof against children’s 
play or mischief, and the “button” cannot come 
off. It is refined in appearance—beautiful indeed 
—but not obtrusive. It is sunk flush with the 
wall and it can be had in any of a large variety 
of finishes to suit the decorative scheme of the 
room. 


A modern refinement of wiring convenience 
is the little red pilot lamp which is furnished, if 
desired, in connection with tumbler switches and which sends out its warning that lights 
have been left burning in attic or cellar when they are no longer in use. While incon- 
spicuous in appearance, it commands attention at once. 


G-E Three-Way and Four-Way Switches 


The functions of three-way and _ four-way 
switches have been explained on a foregoing page. 
The ability to control the same lights from more than 
one convenient point allows you to illuminate the 
way before you no matter what course you follow 
through the house. 


A switch at every door! That is a sure sign of 
good—if not complete—housewiring. What of real 
convenience is there in a system of lighting control 
that compels you to retrace your steps when you go 
about the house at night—or else leave all the lamps 
burning in your wake? What of comfort is there in 
stumbling across a dark room until you manage to 
find a switch at the opposite door? 


Three-way and four-way switches are not an 
elaboration of housewiring—they are a fundamental 
feature of correct and adequate electrical service. 
They make the whole installation a unit of proper 
convenience instead of leaving it a disconnected 
series of individual lighting devices. They serve 
safety as much as they further comfort; they are the 
accepted modern method of control—a method that 
has rendered less convenient systems obsolete. 


G-E Convenience Outlets 


Wherever the G-E Twin Convenience Outlet 
is located—in the baseboard, wall, or floor—there 
the full measure of electrical service is instantly 
available. Do you want to place a table lamp or 
floor lamp, an electric fan or a heater, at a certain 
point? The G-E Wiring System has already pro- 
vided a Convenience Outlet so near that the connect- 
ing cord will be unnoticeable. The G-E Convenience 
Outlet is safe. The live contacts are concealed— 
beyond touch as well as beyond sight—in a com- 
pound base. Hence there is no possibility of shock 
should a childish finger accidentally touch the device 
—a distinct advantage over the older types with 
screw shells into which plugs are screwed. 


The standardization of G-E Wiring Devices 
means that any appliance can be connected to any 
G-E Convenience Outlet or G-E Elexit. The G-E 
Separable Plug assures this, and you can have it on 
every appliance and lamp. 


A G-E Twin Convenience Outlet, when placed in the baseboard, presents to the eye 
only a small surface plate with two apertures in which plugs are inserted. This is the 
whole device and the whole operation in so far as the user is practically concerned. The 
appliance is immediately ready to exercise its function. 


However, the real value of the outlet is in the 
parts that are mot seen—in the careful design, the 
fine material, and the accurate construction that 
assure perfect connection with the wires behind the 
wall. Here is the worth that gives complete and 
continuous service, year after year; here is the elab- 
orate preparation for what seems a simple function. 


GE Elexits 


Until the present time, lighting fixtures have 
been literally fixed as to position—permanently 
wired in place. G-E Elexits turn them into portable 
lighting furniture. Elexits consist of two main 
units—wall or ceiling outlets, and plugs permanently 
attached to fixtures. These are standardized. 
Any wall or ceiling lighting fixture equipped with a 
plug for Elexits (such fixtures are now denominated 
“Elexoliers’”’) can be instantly and firmly attached 
to any Elexit—and as readily removed. 


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Adjuncts to the GE Wiring System 


MONG a hundred comforts, the G-E 
Electric Fan ranks high, not only 
because of its cooling breeze but, as 
well, for its recognized sanitary value. 

Summer, with its long hot days and 
depressing—often sleepless—nights, is merciless 
to the dwellers in an unprotected house. It 
establishes a veritable torrid zone within the 
walls and fills each room with humid lifeless air. 
Only in the completely wired home—the 
protected dwelling—is there a complete defense 
against these ills, because only in the completely 
wired home can G-E Fans be used in any room 
and in any part of the room and be made to 
fling their tonic breezes across the hot kitchen 
or summon quiet sleep to restless nights. 


General Electric offers you a wide variety 
of sizes and types. For intimate and refreshing 
companionship on your desk you may decide on 
a dainty little G-E Fan only nine inches in 
diameter. For an average living room or bed 
room, your probable choice will be the twelve-inch size and the oscillating type that 
swings like a slow pendulum, stirring up and freshening the air in every corner. For 
very large rooms, the magnificent sixteen-inch G-E Fan will successfully combat the closest, 
hottest conditions with the silent whirl of its glittering blades and its dignified sweep from 
side to side. 


The G-E Tungar Battery Charger 
With the popularizing of radio reception, the G-E Tungar Battery Charger has 


entered a large field of usefulness. The radio enthusiast, who is careful to keep his “A” 
and “B” storage batteries in such condition that his 
set will always be ready for use, has only to attach 
one lead of the little Tungar to any alternating- 
current outlet and the other lead to his battery, in 
order to put in as much of a charge as is required. 


The G-E Tungar Battery Charger was General 
Flectric’s solution of a problem on which much 
study had been bestowed in its research laboratories 
—the production of a convenient, economical, and 
reliable device for charging automobile batteries from 
an ordinary lighting circuit. The 5-ampere size Tun- 
gar was especially designed for use in the home garage. 
It is so light and portable that it can be set on the 
running board of the car, attached to the battery 
and to the nearest Convenience Outlet or lamp 
socket, and left to perform its work overnight. 


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GE All-Nite-Lite 


OW often you want a /it#/e light 

for many hours together! Per- 

haps it is in the nursery or a 

sick room, where you may be 
summoned at any moment during the 
night; perhaps it 1s in the bath room 
or, for special purposes, at the entrance 
of the house. You do not need the 
greater brightness of the ordinary 
Mazpa lamp, but you do want a subdued 
glow that will guide your steps and 
assure you at a glance that all is well 
with baby or the invalid. 


For just such needs General Electric 
offers a tiny, two-candle-power lamp, the 
G-E All-Nite-Lite, fitted into a little 
transformer that reduces the current at 
one socket so that just the right amount 
of light will be given. The whole device 
will lie in the palm of your hand, and it 
uit can be inserted in any standard socket 
ge | | as easily as the larger lamps. Its con- 
_——— sumption of current is only nominal. 


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G-E Toy Transformer 


The growing appreciation of electric 
toys embodies an educational idea—an 
essential item in the modern philosophy of 
play. Miniature electric locomotives, 
cranes, aeroplanes, motors, etc., are more 
than toys; they are a practical instruction 
in the application of electricity. The G-E 
Toy Transformer is the most conven- 
ient device for supplying power to these 
toys. Connected to the nearest Conven- 
ience Outlet, it reduces the ordinary 110- 
volt alternating current to the very low 
voltage required. It does away with dry 
cells and with cell renewal; it is always 
ready for immediate use; it is strongly 
constructed for permanent use; and, in 
all sizes, allows several different speeds. 


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The Comfort of Right Lighting 


N earlier pages of this book you have 

been told much of the manipulation 

of electric lighting—location of fixtures 

and their convenient control. Let us 
now, for a moment, appraise the value of 
light itself as one of the hundred comforts 
in a well-wired home. As a matter of fact, 
light is only the raw material of illumina- 
tion, The direct glare of a clear Mazpa 
lamp is as unpleasant to the eye as it 1s 
detrimental to the appearance of a room. 
It is the art of illumination that takes this 
unfiltered light, strains it through prepared 
glass and soft tinted shades, and makes it 
a factor of importance to the family hap- 
piness and health. 


Contrast, for example,~ the. effect on 
the dining room of direct cold rays from 
unshielded lamps, with its appearance 
when lights, deautifully concealed, shed an 

- equal warm glow on silver and sparkling 
glass, flowers and dainty china, and on faces made (perhaps unconsciously) the happier by 
reason of an illumination that pervades the room with its inviting charm. 


Modern physiology puts heavy stress on the painful effects of eyestrain. The whole 
nervous system is profoundly affected when the vision is habitually distressed either by 
artificial glare or inadequate light. It 1s only under even, mellow illumination that the 
system relaxes and yields itself to a comfort that restores tired minds even as it comforts 
weary bodies. 


The G-E Wiring System affords the Qualified Contractor every facility for prescribing 
correct light just as a physician prescribes the right medicine. Where a whole room is 
to be equally illuminated, he will suggest a ceiling fixture and a size of lamp that will 
minimize the shadows and bring out every fine feature of furnishing and decoration. 
Where hours are to be spent in study or needlework or at the piano, he will so locate 
convenience outlets that portable lamps can be placed just where they will concentrate 
their glow on the book or sewing or music and will comfortably protect the eyes from 
direct light. Where far corners of the room are to be used, there he will arrange for the 
right degree of illumination without disturbing the effect of other lighting fixtures or 
lamps. Under his guidance, no employment will be carried on in shadow or be made 
painful by an excess of brilliancy. 


There is an added assurance of permanent service in portable lamps and lighting 
fixtures that are equipped with G-E Sockets. The material is so excellent, the mechanism 
so strong and certain of action, that you may always be confident of continuous and 
unimpaired operation. 


In the completely wired home, light becomes an atmospheric element—a healing 
touch to over-wrought nerves—and, withal, an inspiration to clear thinking and a minister 
to happiness. 


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The Low Cost of Electrical Service 


Pe who are not familiar with the use of electrical appliances often inquire— 
and with a very real concern—as to the cost of operating vacuum cleaners, 
irons, and the many other devices that help to make the completely wired house 
a Home of a Hundred Comforts. It has been truly said that current is one of 
the cheapest things that can be bought. In proof of this assertion the following table of 
operating costs is offered, based on the usual rate of ten cents per kilowatt-hour. In com- 
munities where the rate is different, the cost per hour can readily be computed from the 
figures here given. Bear in mind that these amounts apply to a whole hour of continuous 
use. Wery few appliances are thus used continuously, the general exceptions being elec- 
tric fans, Tungars, and, of course, lamps. 


COST OF 
OPERATION 
IN CENTS 
PER HOUR 
Fan’ (iQ-ineh) sls oy 4 ine ted oa te ine OT ee Ee AL ce ee eae ie 
Fran( 1 2stach ive is es See age at Ree cee es a 1/2 
Fan (16-1neh)\ to ees cc ee As 
Bellsringing: Pranstormer 56 ee 0 ae ee als 1/10 
Tungats (2-am pa) os nt en ete Spee et ae ees ae Ce 7/10 
Tungars (sani p.). een er eae rane: Oe ete as aN o e meyaie’ 
Moo tort (26-3) rane kere eased a ease as Lanchester ec hae or oer 
oy @ Lranstormer aimee cen cee hoc lime het hay Attensa en a me I 
LAM p C40-Watt) \cewGe cree farm Meru en cenat t em ne gn tee ot ie a 4/10 
Lam p Cesc att asec cetebens eeehen tacts ep eee cm atoere lence ene anne arn oe ee 5/10 
Lamipal bo-watt)s sac. bioinceys sagint aemiueua § ances tare teatime OO ran pate er 6/10 
Lamps(loo-watt) tg « oui a chateaus qonien Se ten et, mae piece ne ca re Lee 
AlleNite: Late tceot aricslanesas Gece 0 Sant Ne sete core iene a eee - 3/100 
Vacuum Cleaner as ay) 4a qh he moe he nr Taek eee ee ee 134 
Washing Machines: 6 ¢sc.0 5.090% aia oted. ieee geen coe er ie Va a are BTS) 
Ironing; Machine (Gas heated) ose occ tegnt ci cceer Rete es ah sr ett sr ea eee 2 
Chatng Dish ys esi, ek Sachsen, eee a aaa eee ee 4 
Trona(G2 tbs) ag. aan ee teen ee REPRE cee tren hee (Eee R AT ata LMe Mirai 
Tron (91 By) eee cite cae ee ee ene ee hes ae Nea ate oe te 2 ea US ane 
Hair Dryerict eo. ones nay ota Ae Re ea nee tne eee aye tee 3/4 
Radiant. Heater te oes so hae ee eee eee 6 
Iiimersion Heaters 4) oct scoctys Goes eg tac ee ad eee ae 3 
Gottee’Percolatore tA Ro oe eos oe aes el eee ere Ret 
Dishwashere fe. ee I a cere oe cee et ae ree 2 1/2 
Toasters: cteeyegd pets 2 seach nto oe As eat eee eee & 
Grille aie iens ace we Gebel he a loin pari ee toe ee ae eee ee 6 
HeatingePads./#,. co ties tants, peas et ee ee ee rae ot nt ee 25 
Utility: Moter is: soe. asceen gabe teen tt hic oars aa eer ene eae ann ge 34 
Sewing Machine’ Motor: : 2 ae pae 20a) ae eee ere eee reer 3/4 
Wattle Tron. os bss ab secre a ce ere ts Ore eee rr 6 
Shaving Mug? Wau) ee i Seo ae tug nee ee Ame arr nate out 2 
Gurling Tron 23) 2a Uo a a ee eae ere ee ee eee 1/4 


A World Service in the Home of a 
Hundred Comforts 


HE Home of a Hundred Comforts rests on a deeper foundation than ever architect 

designed or mason laid. The wire that kindles its lamps and makes its labor 

light, goes farther than a central source of energy; it stretches back across the 

years and taps the power of master minds who erected an Institution to serve the 
world, and called it “General Electric.”’ 


The switch that throws on the light in your room—the outlet that brings heat and 
power to your daily need—both were implied in the great generators that this Company 
has designed and erected. The current on which comfort and convenience are carried to 
your chair is but a drop of spray from the mighty flood of power which G-E machinery 
sends across wide territories to light whole cities and turn the wheels of industry. 


Swiftly moving cars that carry you through and under the streets and bring you 
safely to your house, owe their speed and control to the same institution which can make 
that house The Home of a Hundred Comforts. The clothes you wear, the furniture you 
use, are better made and at less cost because General Electric showed the way to electric 
power in factories and built motors which give that power full effect. 


Day by day, world-famous scientists in the laboratories of General Electric are finding 
new ways in which to smooth the path of civilization. Their efforts are reflected in the 
words and songs that reach you through the air, in the brilliant lights that make your city 
streets so safe at night, in the perfect projection of the screen plays that you enjoy, in the 
elevators that make it possible to house business in tall buildings, in the speed with which 
the daily news is printed and brought to your door. 


In the United States, General Electric has manufacturing plants in 33 cities, and yet 
these are not 33 separate institutions; rather they are so many forms of expression—the 
varied aspects of a single organization that is interested in every manner of service that it 
can render to the world. 


Nor is General Electric satisfied with the invention and manufacture of electrical 
apparatus “from the mightiest to the tiniest;” it has another avowed purpose—a great 
educational program. Much of the world is still ignorant of the vast benefit that it can 
draw from a wider understanding and application of electrical service—the finer leisure, 
the greater wealth, the better health, the broader civic life. General Electric has dedicated 
its best resources to spreading the gospel of electricity. It seeks to do this through 
the preparation and publication of scientific information, through the encouragement 
of research, and through fellowships for students and prize awards for electrical 
accomplishment. 


In all these fields of endeavor you have a personal interest. If the generation and 
transmission of current can be improved, that improvement will be reflected in the share 
that you consume. If transportation can be made still safer and easier by new electrical 
applications, your daily life will feel the results. If the cultural service of electricity can be 


broadened, you will be the happier. 


With this forward look, General Electric seeks to further the vast cause of electrical 
advancement and, as a result, to add still more satisfaction to your Home of a Hundred 
Comforts. 


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When You plan YOUR Home, be sure to secure the 
Comfort and Happiness that are provided by the 


IRING SYSTEM 


—~ for Lifetime SCXKVICE 


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